Accommodating the Republic : Taverns in the Early United States / Kirsten E. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Kirsten E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bars (Drinking establishments)--United States--History--19th century.

Bars (Drinking establishments).

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Infrastructure (Economics)--United States.

Infrastructure (Economics).

United States--Social life and customs--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

"People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes-often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Mobility

Chapter One. Wayside Taverns: The Transportation Revolution and American Self-Fashioning

Chapter Two. Fitted Up in a Superior Style: Tavern Improvements

Part II: Enterprise

Chapter Three. A Statement of Your Account: The Circulation of Goods and Credit

Chapter Four. Convenient to Business: Entrepreneurial Networking and Innovation

Part III: Representation

Chapter Five. Tavern Legalities: Orderly Freedoms and Republican Accommodations

Chapter Six. Collecting the Sentiments of the Sovereign People: Taverns and Collective Politics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Wood, Kirsten E. Accommodating the Republic

ISBN:

9798890861665

9781469675558

1469675552

9781469675565

1469675560